Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Winter Park:
35.843207, -78.570835
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Winter Park
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Winter Park.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Winter Park.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Cumberland County
This Winter Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 61 miles [98.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Winter Park that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Winter Park.
New Hanover County
This Winter Park is located in New Hanover County and lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Winter Park that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Hanover County community of Winter Park.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Grand County
This Winter Park is located in Grand County and lies 1,503 miles [2,418.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Winter Park that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grand County community of Winter Park.
Florida
Orange County
This Winter Park is located in Orange County and lies 525 miles [844.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Winter Park that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Winter Park.
South Carolina
Sumter County
This Winter Park is located in Sumter County and lies 168 miles [270.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Winter Park that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumter County community of Winter Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Winter Park ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Winter Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Winter Park and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the southwest (SW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 227 miles [365.3 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Winter Park to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,094 miles [9,807.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,790 miles [10,927.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,671 miles [7,517.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Winter Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
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The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Winter Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Winter Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8432, Longitude: -78.5708 In this case, the coordinates for Winter Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.911 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.142 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.426 degrees.